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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 7, 2017 | Christie's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 21 | $****** - ****** | An Allegory: a man playing the calascione surrounded by a monkey, a parrot, a donkey and a ram |
paintings
127.1 x 100.4 cm (50.04 x 39.53 in)
oil on canvas, unlined
with red brushmark '30' (on the reverse of the original canvas)
Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), Naples and London; recorded in the inventory of Palazzo Sessa, Naples, 14 July 1798, where listed on the staircase leading to the piano nobile; his sale, Christie’s, London, 27 March 1801, lot 56: ‘Luca was out of humour with this Countrymen, and made this hasty Picture as a Satire on them, by putting in the following emblems, which he thought adapted to them, viz. a Monkey, a Parrot, an Ass, and a Ram; that they were, according to the Language of the Country, Imitators, Talkative Asses, and contented Cuckolds, Simii, papagalli, cucci e cornuti buoni’.
Private collection, UK.
W. Hamilton, Catalogue of My Pictures, 14 July 1798, held in the British Library, MS 41,200 ff. 121-8, as ‘Neapolitan Caffone playing on a Guitar with all his attributes by Luca Giordano’.
J.H.W. Tischbein, Aus meinem Leben, Braunschweig, 1861, p. 101, as ‘Salvator Rosa’.
F. Mocchetti (ed.), Opere del Cavaliere CarloCastone Conte della Torre Rezzonico, VII, Como, 1819, p. 241.
B. Croce, Figurine Goethiane. Note sul viaggio in Italia di W. Goethe, Trani, 1887, p. 35, as ‘Salvator Rosa’.
J. Clark, Catalogue of Pictures, Marbles, Bronzes. The property of The Right Honble. Sir William Hamilton…, in Case No. 9, no. 6, as ‘Luca Giordano’, reprinted in B. Fothergill, Sir William Hamilton: Envoy Extraordinary, London, 1969, p. 435.
M. Praz, Fiori freschi, Florence, 1982, p. 148.
O.E. Deutsch, ‘Sir William Hamilton’s Picture Gallery’, The Burlington Magazine, LXXXII, 479, February 1943, p. 38.
C. Knight, ‘La quadreria di Sir William Hamilton a Palazzo Sessa’, Napoli Nobilissima, January-April 1985, XXIV, p. 55.
F. Fraser, Beloved Emma. The Life of Emma Hamilton, London, 1986, p. 82.
I. Jenkins and K. Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and His Collection, exhibition catalogue, London, 1996, p. 85, referred to as both by Rosa and Giordano, quoting Tischbein and Conte della Torre Rezzonico.
D.D. Nolta, ‘The Body of the Collector and the Collected Body in William Hamilton’s Naples’, Eighteenth-Century Studies, XXXI, no. 1, Fall 1997, p. 114, note 6.
J. Deuter, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein als Sammler: europäische Kunst 1500-1800, Oldenburg, 2001, pp. 56-7, as Salvator Rosa.
J.J. Winckelmann, Kleine Schriften: Vorreden, Entwürfe, ed. W. Rehm, 2002, p. 371, no. 75, cited as being a version of the picture once identified as a self-portrait by Salvator Rosa, with a monkey on his shoulder.
C. Knight, Hamilton a Napoli: cultura, svaghi, civiltà di una grande capitale europea, Milan, 2003, p. 82.
oil on canvas, unlined
50 x 39 5/8 in. (127.1 x 100.4 cm.)
with red brushmark '30' (on the reverse of the original canvas)
